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Are wind subsidies a price worth paying?

Every 6th day, the electricity delivered to the National Grid by UK wind farms, dropped below 1¼% of average capacity for a period of 5 hours. So the 200 MW averaged sized offshore wind farm would power about 1000 average households. The occupants of the remaining 99,000 might as well take the chance of another few hours in bed. Google - "stuart young" + "wind power" In reallity, either or both expensive gas burning 'non-spinning reserve' plant or expensive and tragically inefficient 'spinning reserve' plant will be brought online, ensuring that 99,000 household make their full contribution to greenhouse gas emissions.

2 May 2012

9:23 pm